Return of the Away Team, Rescue Complete?
The message came in from the bridge, and Bones jumped, even though he'd been waiting for it ever since he'd woken up.
Away team, beaming straight to sick bay.Everyone had been notified about the away team's departure while he was unconscious, and they had assembled in sickbay. Now turning to look at them, he took a deep breath and nodded ( Read more... )
Away team, beaming straight to sick bay.Everyone had been notified about the away team's departure while he was unconscious, and they had assembled in sickbay. Now turning to look at them, he took a deep breath and nodded ( Read more... )
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A long second later and Bones realized what she was saying- Jim was marked, looked like tattoos all over his face and neck. "See how far it goes and get them clean," he told her, keeping the horror out of his voice, but not out of his eyes at he glanced over at Tina. "We'll get to those later."
His main concerns were internal damage, that chest wound, and saving Jim's left hand.
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"Try not to exacerbate these lacerations," she murmured to Rien, the nurse assisting. "But get them as clean as you can - could be some toxins involved."
And then she focused on her own work, wielding a specialized dermal regenerator on the phaser burn. The tissues began to knit together, but slowly.
"Set up a rehydration drip, Rien," Tina said. The burns and whatever else had been done to him had left him too dehydrated to heal, even with medical assistance.
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The commotion behind her as the least-injured of all the away team members suddenly started to go into echoing convulsions gave her a clue.
"Hold him," she snapped to Rien, letting the other nurse take her place with Kirk for the moment. And then she turned to Jim.
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But when Jim dropped out of consciousness, it helped. Kirk's body sagged back to the bed, eyes open and staring up at nothing.
Strong, not-burning but warm hands, holding his head.
You can stop fighting when you feel me.
Bones?
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She checked the progress of the rehydration - good, so far - and rechecked her work on the phaser burn, finding with relief that Kirk's movements hadn't torn the new, tender tissue that had replaced his burned flesh. One thing down, then.
She turned to McCoy, waiting for his instructions.
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She began comparing the data to earlier scans as it rolled across her screen. Interesting.
"Nearly normative now," she said. "The spiking seems to have started diminishing when I sedated Jim. The other Jim, I mean."
She paused, looking at McCoy instead of her screen for a moment. "We don't have time to go into it, but... Do you understand how this mental bonding stuff works? It seems to be causing some serious complications, from a medical standpoint."
She was already working again as she spoke, snapping on a fresh pair of gloves and moving to hold a light and tools ready for McCoy as he focused on Kirk's hand.
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Then he stopped, looking up at her. "Wait - complications how?" he asked, his eyes narrowing.
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The monitor she'd been looking at before beeped insistently, and Tina juggled tools for a moment as she leaned over to get a look at it.
"...the fuck? He's unconscious. How can his brain activity be so high?" She squinted. "It's all in the limbic system, mostly amygdalar... Rien, did you do a general tox screen?"
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Whatever the hell the drug in Kirk's system was, it didn't seem to be doing active damage to him just then. But that didn't mean that they could afford to ignore it.
Tina switched a new bag of saline into Kirk's drip as Rien hurried off with the tox screen results, and then stood at McCoy's side, waiting to see what he would need from her next.
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